Vaccines and Autism Risk
May 26, 2008
I just discovered a great blog written by a scientific-minded dad. Colin has a brilliant post about vaccines and the (non-existent) associated risk of autism.
Best quote:
Vaccines don’t cause autism, or we would all have autism – a simple fact that vaccine activists generally ignore, or write off with an explanation that brings them back to square one: a genetic component causes the autism.
Another interesting article on the topic can be found here.
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Autistic children are different from normal children from birth – which means that autism is present at birth. Which means that the conditions has notheing to do with events such as vaccination.
http://www.autism.org/overview.html
Autistic children also have different facial features when compared to normal children. So no – vaccination as a cause would make no sense.
http://www.autism-pdd.net/testdump/test20021.htm
http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2007/09/autism-and-unusual-facial-asymmetry.html
Thanks for the recommendation!
I just want to clarify that I’m not a scientist, just a father who believes in the scientific method.
Correction made. And you’re welcome.